Renewed Ambition – a joint public and private sector led initiative – aims to shape how we reimagine the future of our city and act together to deliver that ambition in the months and years ahead.
Over the past number of years, we have increasingly worked collaboratively to showcase investment and development opportunities across Belfast as we seek to deliver on our shared ambitions for the city as an exciting place to work, live, play and invest.
Renewed Ambition is delivering a structured programme focused on activities that help to ensure Belfast and the wider region is positioned to continue to attract investment and deliver on inclusive growth.
The 2022/2023 Programme of activity will run from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023. This collaborative programme of activity will continue to be delivered across the key pillars of Research, Events, Engagement and Advocacy, Communications and Repository. The programme will also include a return to in-person attendance at international real estate conferences such as UKREiiF and MIPIM 2023, and Investor showcase events in London and Dublin, to showcase Belfast and the wider city region to a global audience.
This programme will be delivered as a public-private partnership model, governed by the Renewed Ambition Partnership (RAP) Taskforce, with responsibility for providing strategic direction and oversight for all elements of the Renewed Ambition Programme. The programme has been designed to be flexible due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ever-changing economic landscape. The Taskforce will be responsible for agreeing and approving the final programme structure and content.
Membership of the Taskforce includes representatives from Belfast City Council and top-level sponsoring organisations. The Taskforce is chaired by a representative from the private sector. Belfast City Council (the council) will take responsibility for the governance of all related programme expenditure, with oversight from the Taskforce.
This document sets out the Terms and Conditions upon which Belfast City Council provides the Renewed Ambition Programme on behalf of the Taskforce and sponsors.
By agreeing to the content of the letter accompanying these Terms and Conditions you are agreeing that your Sponsorship monies will be used to deliver the proposed Renewed Ambition Programme and you are confirming that you accept these Terms and Conditions and that you agree to comply with them.
1. Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions relate to the delivery of the Renewed Ambition proposed programme of activity for 2022/2023 and outline the Renewed Ambition’s responsibilities and how your sponsorship monies shall be used.
2. Cost of participation
Sponsorship funding will be used to deliver the proposed programme of activity for 2022/2023.
These sponsorship packages are available:
- Headline Package £40,000
- Platinum Package £20,000
- Gold Package £10,000
- BRCD Council Partner Package £15,000
3. Payment
We will send an invoice to you for the full price of the package you have selected with our confirmation. Payment in full is due within 30 days of the date of our invoice. No package rewards will be made available until we receive full payment of the invoice amount.
4. Additional charges
The council will invoice you for any additional charges (such as additional delegate passes, additional sponsorship opportunities) incurred on your behalf, which shall be due and payable within 30 days of the date of invoice. Additional charges that are incurred in currency other than sterling will be invoiced in sterling at the exchange rate prevailing at Barclays at the date of invoice.
5. Allocation of programme features and additional sponsorship opportunities
Any programme features and additional sponsorship opportunities will be allocated on a first come, first served basis and receipt of all payments due. All sponsors should note and acknowledge that the Renewed Ambition Programme shall be flexible due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ever changing economic landscape. Subject to Taskforce approval, the council reserves the right to amend the proposed programme without the requirement to seek the approval of sponsors should it be deemed necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ever changing economic landscape.
6. Advertising
Should the opportunity arise to incorporate advertising opportunities into any aspect of the proposed Programme, the RAP appointed delivery partner or the council will communicate with sponsors. By accepting these advertising opportunities, sponsors agree to provide us with advertising copy and your logo for inclusion in the promotional material before any deadline specified by the RAP appointed delivery partner or the council. If you fail to meet this deadline your entry in the publicity materials will be cancelled and no credit against the package price will be given. Any additional charges will be allocated as per Clause 4.
7. Advertising copy content
By submitting your advertising copy to us you confirm that its contents are a true and fair statement of the services or facilities provided by you and that it does not contravene the provisions of any applicable law. You also confirm that such advertising copy does not infringe the rights, including any intellectual property rights, of any third party and agree to indemnify us against all costs, expenses and liabilities we incur as a result of any claim for infringement of such rights by any third party.
8. Publication of advertising copy
We will make all reasonable efforts to ensure the accurate reproduction of the advertising copy supplied by you, however, we will not accept liability for any errors or omissions unless they arise as a direct result of our negligence in which case our liability to you is limited to the cost of the advertising materials irrespective of the participation package price.
9. Liability
We will have no liability to you or to any other person for any loss of profit, economic loss or goodwill or for any special, indirect or consequential loss. Save as set out below our total liability to you is capped at your participation package price. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or limits our liability for our fraud or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
10. Force Majeure - COVID-19
The Parties hereby agree that should the council’s performance of the Renewed Ambition Programme be rendered unable to be performed due to a Force Majeure event (which shall for the avoidance of doubt include the present COVID-19 Pandemic and all measures implemented by the United Kingdom Government and Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the outbreak) this shall entitle the council to amend/cancel the event in howsoever a manner as it sees fit in contemplation of said event. In those circumstances the council shall inform the Sponsors, in writing, at the earliest opportunity. The council shall endeavour to revise the Programme to achieve as nearly as possible its original intent.
Force Majeure means any event or sequence of events beyond a party’s reasonable control and that could not have been reasonably anticipated or avoided and which prevents it from, or delays it in, performing its obligations under this agreement including, but not limited to, (a) an act of God, fire, flood, drought, earthquake, windstorm or other natural disaster; (b) an act of any sovereign including war (or threat of, or preparation for war), armed conflict (or threat of, or preparation for, armed conflict), invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities (whether war be declared or not), rebellion, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power or confiscation; (c) acts of terrorism, civil war, civil commotion or riot (or the threat of, or preparation for, acts of terrorism, civil war, civil commotion or riot); (d) civil emergency (whether an emergency be declared or not); (e) fire or explosion (other than, in each case, one caused by breach of contract by, or with the assistance of, the party seeking to rely on it as a force majeure event or by a member of the same group as such party), (f) adverse weather conditions; (g) nationalisation, requisition, destruction or damage to property by or under the order of any government or public or local authority; (h) embargo, blockade, imposition of sanctions or breaking off of diplomatic relations or similar actions; (i) radioactive, nuclear, chemical or biological contamination or sonic boom, pressure waves caused by aircraft travelling at sonic or supersonic speeds; (j) law, or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, judgment, order or decree; (k) epidemic or pandemic; (l) labour dispute including, but not limited to, strikes, industrial action, lockouts or boycott; (m) interruption or failure of utility service including to electric power, gas, water, internet or telephone service; (n) loss at sea; (o) collapse of building structures; [(p) failure of the transportation of any personnel, equipment, machinery supply or material required by a party for performance of the agreement; (q) failure of plant machinery, machinery, computers or vehicles; (r) non-performance by suppliers or sub-contractors; (s) malicious or negligent damage or other act (other than, in each case, by the party seeking to rely on it as a force majeure event or by a member of the same group as such party);(t) any action taken by a government or public authority, including, but not limited to, a failure to grant a necessary licence or consent or the imposition of an export restriction, import restriction, quota or other restriction or prohibition.
11. Indemnity
You shall indemnify us against injury to any persons and any loss of or damage to any property caused by your negligence or that of your employees, agents, subcontractors and / or guests or arising out of or in connection with your participation in this programme.
12. Amendments
The council reserves the right to amend the proposed programme without the requirement to seek the approval of sponsors should it be deemed necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ever-changing economic landscape.
The programme of activity includes a Belfast presence at international real estate conferences such as UKREiiF and MIPIM 2023, and Investor showcase events in London and Dublin. Included within the sponsorship packages are:
Headline sponsor package
| Headline sponsorship package activity £50,000 |
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Platinum sponsor package
| Platinum sponsorship package activity £20,000 |
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Gold sponsorship package
| Gold sponsorship package activity £10,000 |
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BRCD Council sponsorship package
| BRCD council sponsorship package activity £50,000 |
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Sponsors must ensure that delegate names are provided in advance of event organisers deadlines and any amends to delegate details will be subject to event organisers approval. If additional charges are occurred to make Sponsors requested change to delegate details, the council reserves the right to invoice such charges to sponsors as an additional charge.
Should these events be cancelled due to due to the COVID-19 pandemic, subject to Taskforce approval, the council reserves the right to re-allocate the budget for delegate passes to other programme features.
13. Venue(s)
Elements of the Renewed Ambition Programme will be delivered in physical and virtual venues. It is not however a term of these Terms and Conditions that any particular venue is to be used to host an element of the Programme and if a venue which we intend to use to host the programme becomes unusable due to flood, fire or such similar occurrence or is not available for any other reason including restrictions imposed by the United Kingdom Government and/or Northern Ireland Executive in response to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, we will endeavour to find a suitable alternative venue and notify you of the change of venue in a timely manner.
14. Cancellation/amendments to the Programme
If, because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control (including but not limited to issues/cancellation caused by COVID-19 and restrictions enforced by the United Kingdom Government and/or Northern Ireland Executive to combat same) the council decide to cancel the Renewed Ambition Programme, we shall notify you of the same in a timely manner. We shall not be in breach of these Terms and Conditions as a result of such cancellation. You will be entitled to cancel your participation in writing within 14 days of such notification and seek a refund of all monies you have paid to us, less an amount calculated and deducted by us, acting in good faith, representing an apportioned share of our costs, disbursements and expenses (including administrative expenses) related to the Renewed Ambition Programme.
All sponsors should be aware that Belfast City Council is committed to attendance at MIPIM 2023 however this is presently subject to internal committee approval. Whilst the council expects this approval to be granted, should it not be granted for any reason, the council shall reserve the right to terminate this agreement as it pertains to that Event only. Any sponsorship monies that have been committed to that Event shall be reimbursed to you upon written confirmation of termination.
15. Copyright
The sponsor can only use the council’s Logo after receiving written approval from the council to do so. Logos can be obtained from the Marketing and Corporate Communications Unit. Where the council’s logo is used, it should be accompanied by the following statement “this publication is connected as Sponsor to the Renewed Ambition Programme. The views expressed are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the council. The council does not accept any responsibility or liability for same.”
16. Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Northern Irish law and both parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Northern Irish courts.
To buy a sponsorship package, go to Renewed Ambition 2022 Programme sponsorship form (link opens in a new window).